User guide

220 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide
 Manually. Select Manually to set the amount of memory reserved for virtual machine by
using the slider. The value is set in multiples of 4.
Enable virtual memory preallocation
You can preallocate 1.5 GB of your Mac hard disk space for the virtual machine. When the
virtual machine is not running, the Mac hard disk doesn’t share its space with it. This ensures
that the virtual machine will get the required amount of memory if you decide to increase it
without restarting Parallels Desktop.
Network Tab
On this tab, you can configure the necessary settings for your network.
Parallels Desktop provides several types of networking in a virtual machine, particularly, host-
only networking and shared networking (NAT). On the Network pane you can specify the ranges
of IP addresses to be assigned to virtual machines and primary OS in the shared networking and
host-only networking modes.
To edit the host-only networking mode settings:
1 Select Host-only networking in the Show list.